Comparison: O.P.I vs Catrice & Chanel (Picture Heavy)

Hello! Hope everyone is enjoying the miraculously warm weather we've been having this weekend. More of that, please!

This is a post I've been sitting on for a while, and seeing as I haven't done a nail post all week, I thought I'd dig it out today. A while back, I got the O.P.I The Amazing Spider-man Mini set. I forgot to take a picture, so here's a stock photo:

[Source: Littlewoods]

I have two comparisons for you, the first one is O.P.I 'Just Spotted The Lizard' vs Catrice 'Genius In The Bottle'. I don't have the other rumoured dupe Chanel 'Peridot', but if you have it, you can have a look and see which of these it's most like.

As you can see, they look fairly similar in the bottle. Both have the gold/bronze/green tones in natural light.

Inside, Flash.

You can see from this picture that the Catrice has a deeper bronze tone than the O.P.I, which is leaning more towards gold. Application with both was much the same, this was two coats of each.

Outside, Daylight

Inside, daylight

However, in certain lights, they're very similar. Take this next picture, outside, with no flash:

They are definitely similar, but they're not dupes. I don't know how they stand up against Peridot, does it lean towards bronze or gold?

Next up is O.P.I 'Number One Nemesis' vs Chanel 'Graphite'.

To me, they didn't look similar at all in the bottles. The Chanel looked much thicker and lighter in colour.

The application was also very different. Above is one coat of each polish. As you can see, the O.P.I was thinner and didn't cover the nail line in one coat. The Chanel almost completely covered the nail line in one coat. However...

Inside, daylight

Two coats of both tells a different story! They're much more similar here. The Chanel has more silver, the O.P.I has more gold.

Outside, no flash

They're very similar outside. Even moreso than the O.P.I & Catrice.

Outside, no flash

Verdict? Again, not dead-on dupes, but close enough for 'Number One Nemesis' to satisfy a craving for Chanel without wasting expensive polish.

Have a great Sunday!

S xx